This Day in Halloween: Jimmy Spicer’s “Adventures of Super Rhyme” is released in 1980, the first known appearance of “Horrorcore” rap. / Illustration by Haley Underwood
Jimmy Spicer’s “Adventures of Super Rhyme” is released by Dazz Records in 1980, marking arguably the first known appearance of “Horrorcore” rap. The lengthy rap includes a portion where Spicer recounts meeting Dracula.
